Research Sector Projects Unit (RSPU) at Kuwait University is a scientific facility hosted by Faculty of Science and funded by Research Administration. RSPU is equipped with a wide range of sophisticated instruments from various scientific domains and provides full-fledged services to the research as well as academic community in and around Kuwait. Over the years the facility is being expanded by including more professional manpower and state-of the-art instruments. The existing equipment in the unit are also being continuously upgraded to ensure top-notch performance. The service from RSPU is free of charge to all researchers and graduate students within Kuwait University.

About us 

Research Sector Projects Unit (RSPU) is an amalgamation of several scientific laboratories...

Facilities

   

 

       1- Fourier-Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (FT-NMR)
           Bruker AVANCE II 600 MHz NMR Spectrometer (General Facility Project No: GS 01/03)

       2- Fourier-Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (FT-NMR)
           Bruker AVANCE DPX 400 Spectrometer (General Facility Project No: GS 01/01)

       3- Ultraviolet-Visible-Near IR Spectroscopy (UV-Vis-NIR)
           Agilent Cary 5000 (General Facility Project No: GS 02/01)

       4- Fourier Transform-Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR)
           PerkinElmer Spectrum 2 & 3 (General Facility Project No: GS 01/05)

       5- Fluorescence  Spectroscopy 
           Horiba Jobin Yvon Fluoromax 4 (General Facility Project No: GS 03/01)

     

 

     1- Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS DFS (GC-MS) 
         Thermo DFS GCMS (General Facility Project No: GS 01/03)

      2- Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy (LC/MS)  
           Waters Xevo G2-S QToF (General Facility Project No: GS 01/03)

     3- Ultra Fast Liquid Chromatography (UFLC) 
          Shimadzu Nexera X2 (General Facility Project No: GS 01/03)

     4- Preparative High Performance Liquid Chromatography (Prep.HPLC) 
          Shimadzu Prominence LC 20AP (General Facility Project No: GS 01/03)

     5- Ultra Fast Liquid Chromatography (UFLC) 
         Shimadzu Nexera X2 (General Facility Project No: GS 01/03)

     6- Liquid Chromatography (LC) 
         Shimadzu LC 20 (General Facility Project No: GS 03/01)

     7- Ion Chromatography (IC) 
         Metrohm 850 Professional (General Facility Project No: GS 02/01)

 

 

     1- Elemental Analyzer (CHNS) 
          Elementar Vario Uni Cube (General Facility Project No: GS 01/05)

     2- Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS) 
          PerkinElmer NexIon 2000P (General Facility Project No: GS 01/05)

     3- Atomic Absorption Flame Spectrometer (AAFS)
          PerkinElmer Pinnacle 900F (General Facility Project No: GS 02/01)

     4- X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF)
          Bruker S-8 Tiger (General Facility Project No: GS 03/01)

    5- Microwave Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer (MPAES)
         Agilent MPAES 4100 (General Facility Project No: GS 02/01)

   

 

  1- Powder X-ray Diffractometry (XRD) 
          Bruker D8 Advance (General Facility Project No: GS 03/01)

  2-  Single Crystal X-Ray Crystallography - Small Molecules  
         Rigaku Rapid II (General Facility Project No: GS 03/08)

   3- Single Crystal X-Ray Crystallography &nbsp 
         Bruker X8 Proepector (General Facility Project No: GS 03/0 8)

   4- X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy  
          Thermo ESCALAB 250Xi (General Facility Project No: GS 01/05)

 

 

   1- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) 
         NETZSCH 204 F1 Phoenix (General Facility Project No: GS 02/01)

   2-  Thermal Analysis (TA) 
         Shimadzu DTG-60 H & TMA -60H (General Facility Project No: GS 01/01)

  

 

  1- Surface Area & Porosimetry  
       Micromeritics ASAP 2020 (General Facility Project No: GS 01/01)

  2- High Pressure Volumetric Analyzer 
      Particulate Systems HPVA II (General Facility Project No: GS 01/01)

  3- Adsorption Analyzer 
      Micromeritics Gemini VII 2390t (General Facility Project No: GS 01/01)

       

 

 1- Genetic Analyzer  
      ABI 3500 (General Facility Project No: GS 01/02)

  2- Genetic Analyzer 
       ABI  SeqStudio 24Flex Analyzer (General Facility Project No: GS 01/02)

  3- Microarray 
       Affymatrix Microarray Genechip Scanner 3000 7G System (General Facility Project No: GS 01/02)

  4- Confocal Microscope 
       Nikon T-2 (General Facility Project No: GS 03/08)

 

  

  1-Ultra Fast Transient Nanosecond Femtosecond Kinetic Laser 
     Helios  (General Facility Project No: GS 02/13)

  2- Femtosecond Laser 
      Spectra Physics Femtosecond Laser (General Facility Project No: GS 01/08)

  3- Qunta Ray Nd-YAG Laser Pumped Dye Laser 
      Spectra Physics Sirah Cobra Stretch Dye Laser (General Facility Project No: GS 03/01)

 

 

  1- Liquid Nitrogen Generator 
      SterLin-1 Economy (General Facility Project No: GS 03/01)

  2- Ultra Water Deionizer 
      Elga , Millipore Water Deionizer

  3- Gas Displacement Pycnometry System
      Accupyc 1340 (General Facility Project No: GS 01/01)

  4- Water test for anion determination
      Nanocolor Vario Vis C2 HC (General Facility Project No: GS 01/05)

  5- Absorbance modules for analysis of nutrients
      Turner Designs  (General Facility Project No: GS 01/01)

  6- Flurometer
       Qubit 2.0 Thermofisher Scientific (General Facility Project No: GS 01/12)

  7- Tube Furnace
       Carbolite Gero Tsi-1200 (General Facility Project No: GS 03/08)

  8- Rotavapor
       Buchi 

 

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